Bio

Cesare Pautasso is full professor at the Software Institute of the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Previously he was a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Lab (2007) and a senior researcher at ETH Zurich (2004-2007). He completed his graduate studies with a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 2004 and his undergraduate studies at Politecnico di Milano, Italy with a Computer Science Engineering Degree (cum laude) in 2000.

His research group focuses on building experimental systems to explore the intersection of model-driven software composition techniques, business process modelling languages, and autonomic/Cloud computing. He is currently supervising the research of a group of PhD students working on Liquid Software, Workflow Benchmarking, RESTful Conversations and ASQ.

His teaching, training, and consulting activities both in academia and in industry cover advanced topics related to Web Development, Business Process Management, Enterprise Software Architecture, Service Oriented Architectures and emerging Web services and Middleware technologies. He is an active member of IEEE and ACM, where he has participated in more than 100 international conference/workshop program committees and published more than 150 papers. He was the general chair of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2016) and the 9th European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2011). He has served as program co-chair of the 11th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2013), the 8th European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2010) and the 7th International Symposium on Software Composition (SC 2008). He has also started the series of International Workshops on RESTful Design (WS-REST) at the WWW conference. He regularly referees for Swiss, EU and US funding agencies. Since 2010 he is an advisory board member of EnterpriseWeb. He is co-editor of the IEEE Software Insights department.